Company: VML
Location: London
Job Description:
Overview
In this contract role you will drive enterprise-wide sourcing transformations and cost-reduction initiatives. You’ll bridge strategic sourcing with project execution, coordinating cross-functional teams and tracking measurable savings. You will embed ESG criteria in supply chains and push continuous improvement through modern procurement platforms. This position offers impact at scale within a renowned global agency and cross-functional collaboration with senior leadership.
Pay / Benefits
- discretionary bonus scheme
- training opportunities
- competitive pension
- medical insurance
- life assurance
- retail discounts
Responsibilities
- Lead large-scale productivity, technology, and supply chain transformation programs from ideation through implementation
- Establish project scorecards, define metrics, and report savings and efficiency to senior leadership
- Align Finance, Operations, Legal, and regional procurement teams with strategic goals
- Identify procurement risks, implement contingency plans, and embed ESG criteria into the supply chain
- Identify continuous improvement opportunities, deploy modern procurement platforms, and establish SOPs
Key requirements
- Experience in large scale corporate WAN rollout and retail store estate LAN rollout
- Extensive combined experience in project/program management, supply chain operations, or strategic procurement
- High proficiency in data manipulation, spend analytics, and capability reporting using SAP or other modern enterprise platforms
- Deep understanding of contract management, supplier negotiation, and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) models
- Proven ability to drive results in matrixed organizations, manage external consulting partners, and drive change management
- stakeholder management
- change management
- cross-functional collaboration
- SAP
- spend analytics
- data manipulation
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Posted: September 14th, 2026